July 17, 2008

Famous German Bike Queen to Ride with NBG Mayors' Ride Busycle

Ines Brun, the beyond epic German bike acrobat sensation, who can do things on a bicycle that challenge one's imagination as well as the ability to explain that which has occurred, has accepted an invitation to ride the Busycle here next Tuesday night! The excitement for what is ahead is very hard to contain. I mean we're talking about an athlete and body movement magician whose performances are so powerful, and at the same time compelling with their artistic grace, that they fill entire sporting arenas back in her home country. WOW!!

A humble giant, intoxicated with all things bicycle, one would never know that outside of the unprecedented bike tricks she can do, she is a much in demand practicing physicist on assignment in China. And yet it is easy to see why she is coming to us here in Palo Alto, just south of San Francisco and the home of Stanford, to ride our 15 person truck/bike. As a real cyclist, her blood boils so hot for bicycles that in the knowing that what we do here in the U.S. is copied the world around, she wants to use a part of her American vacation to help call attention to the the National Bicycle Greenway vision.

Toward that end, Ines might also join me for all or part of my Mayors' Ride/Author Tour from San Francisco to Boston next summer at http://www.bikeroute.com/HBGR . While I do have her assurance that she will help us send the event off next Spring!

When she comes out in five days time, she will join us as we pedal across town to hear the also legendary band, Norton Buffalo, play the second to last show in the Palo Alto summer concert series. And since she will ride with us on the way to the park and we can't say where or when, spontaneous street theater will surely occur along the way. Bearing witness to a few minutes here, a few seconds there, all as yet on a route or at locations that we will not know until we reach them, the select group of cyclists chosen for this Busycle ride or those who come along as escorts (all invited) will be privy to excitement that few people ever get a chance to view.

If you want to see why I am so excited for us to be entertained by the Babe Rube of cycling, a woman who stands so tall above other champion cyclists that she has no equal, do get a look at her web at

http://www.trick-bike.com

For details, including the location of the Busycle garage: NBG@bikeroute.com

Yahoo Ines!!

THX 4 all of U!!

Posted by mkrieg at 09:17 AM